The role of external oversight bodies in public schools

The main road blocks were identified as weak external oversight institutions, poor school governance, a dysfunctional curriculum with irrelevant and overcrowded content and modes of assessment with a bias on knowledge at the expense of skills.

Of these four critical issues, this edition would like to pay a little more attention to the place and role of external oversight bodies in public schools. The system of governance in private schools is different from that of public schools.